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couple toasting with glasses of Spanish and paella in restaurant

Beyond the Rioja glass

Guy Chatfield | Food

Spanish winemaking can be traced back to roughly 4000 BC and it still continues to thrive in popularity today.

Statue of Jefferson Davis on Monument Ave in Richmond, the day it was toppled after several days of protests which were sparked by the killing of George Floyd by police.

A bitter culture war in the fourth century shows we may not be as divided as we think

Ryan Gilfeather | History

What the culture war from the eastern Roman Empire in the late fourth and early fifth century AD tells us about the one we are seeing today.

Lost History – Rome’s ambivalence towards Alexander the Great

Harry Cluff | History

Some praised Alexander as the greatest to ever live, but other Roman statesmen and writers from the Republican era discerned plenty to detest in the conduct of the king.

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Beyond the Rioja glass

A bitter culture war in the fourth century shows we may not be as divided as we think

Lost History – Rome’s ambivalence towards Alexander the Great

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